We are in the same condition. What is it. then. that you are asked to do? It is that we. the Government of the United States. we as a people say to all the world. especially the silverusing people. all of the Asiatic nations and the Great Indies. come here with your white metal if you choose to come. and trade with us on the basis of 16 to 1 and buy your commodities from us at that ratio. When you do that. will not the silverusing people of the world come to our shores to make their purchases rather than go to the European powers. where they demand a ratio of from 22 to 25? There can be no doubt of the answer to that question.